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The Joy of Sect

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The Joy of Sect

Rating: 4 (102 votes)

Plot

Homer encounters two recruiters from the "Movementarians," a religious sect which promises to take members away in a spaceship to "Blisstonia." Homer attends the meeting and is (eventually) brainwashed. Homer gives up his house and moves the family to the sect's compound, where everyone except Marge loves "the leader." Marge escapes, and with Reverend Lovejoy and Groundskeeper Willy's help, kidnaps her family and attempts to deprogram them. However, the lawyers burst in and take Homer back. When Homer is returned, he reveals that he no longer believes in the group, and exposes the spaceship to be a fake.


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Notes

  • The sign at Springfield Airport reads: "No Crashes Since Tuesday".
  • Books in the Movementarians' classroom include "Arithmetic the Leader's Way" and "Science for Leader Lovers".
  • People who weren't brainwashed by the Movementarians: Marge, Reverend Lovejoy, the Flanders', Lenny, Burns, Smithers and Groundskeeper Willy (at least at first).

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References

  • This episode's title references the book "The Joy of Sex".
  • Marge is chased by a giant bubble which emerges from a river, referencing the 60's cult TV series "The Prisoner".

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PCode
5F23

Index
9×13

Aired
8 Feb, 1998

Aired (UK)
15 Mar, 1998

Written by
Steve O'Donnell

Directed by
Steven Dean Moore

Starring
Dan Castellaneta
Julie Kavner
Nancy Cartwright
Yeardley Smith
Hank Azaria
Harry Shearer

Also Starring
Pamela Hayden
Tress MacNeille

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Season 9

  1. The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson
  2. The Principal and the Pauper
  3. Lisa's Sax
  4. Treehouse of Horror VIII
  5. The Cartridge Family
  6. Bart Star
  7. The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons
  8. Lisa the Skeptic
  9. Realty Bites
  10. Miracle on Evergreen Terrace
  11. All Singing, All Dancing
  12. Bart Carny
  13. The Joy of Sect
  14. Das Bus
  15. The Last Temptation of Krust
  16. Dumbbell Indemnity
  17. Lisa the Simpson
  18. This Little Wiggy
  19. Simpson Tide
  20. The Trouble With Trillions
  21. Girly Edition
  22. Trash of the Titans
  23. King of the Hill
  24. Lost Our Lisa
  25. Natural Born Kissers